Tuesday, May 05, 2009
WHO I FOUND
First finding that perfect oval of silver, a shape worth mentioning, I bent wondering, then touching, smoothing around the gentle arc. For it seemed to beat as a heart and pump as a heart, but shine like an iced and fallen star in the palm of my sanded hand.
It was no larger or smaller, than a silver dollar, yet when my eye caught its beckon hidden in the fine grains beneath my feet, I knew that its insistence meant something.
More than just a coin of nothing, it sang some sort of song. The whooshing and vibrating into my feet, legs and then my hand rushed in on whitecapped crests. Was I imagining?
The song was of desire primal and needful. The song sung in rivers, earth and trees. The gulping air of mountain peaks. One that gulls need not learn. A simple song of praise and purpose. The song of You, dear One. You alone.
I could no more dispose of one so special than pass it by.
Quickly it had become a blood singing in me, standing on the hot sand blown by fishy breezes.
So I closed around its graininess a soft flesh, and that was my prayer.
That grasping. That flesh to You. The surrender of it all as waves tickled the shoreline, as gulls screeched, was me. Me to You with no edges or borders, nothing but the rising on the high air currents into the blinding sky.
It answered only with a sun-drenched warmth. And did I hear a yes so softly that my heart barely registered it?
Yes.
Here it is now, in my pocket, riding with me, singing with my voice, whispering with Yours. I carry it a bit duller for the wear, as I travel sanded, rocky, stone turned, or snow-diamond glittered roads, listening to the Voice, remembering the gift, Knowing Who.
c 05/05/2009 M. LaPointe
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
THIRSTY???? (Who's foot is in your puddle?)
I am dumbstruck by the words God spoke through Jeremiah to the Israelites in Jeremiah 2:13.
"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken Me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."
Ah, yes. The perfect picture of our rebellion. God offers us living, refreshing, renewing water for our very souls and we pugnaciously decide to dig a filthy, dirty pit to collect our own water. As if our water could quench the eternal thirst of our souls!!!!
The Israelites were doing their thing again...worshipping idols. That, in itself, was an empty and barren endeavor. They thought that building temples of beauty and strict rules to guide their lives brought them closer to the truth. Really, those hull-like containers they thought were filled with the truth, were worthless...because they collected only worldly water and not the true water of life.
John 4: 13-14 describes Jesus' interaction with the woman at the well.
"Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water [from the well], will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
When we step away from the well, when we take it upon ourselves to drink of other waters (such as; idolatry or even self-righteousness), we risk, not simply losing our focus on and relationship with the Lord, but a full scale attack from the enemy.
Alone, without the water of life prophylactically coursing through our veins, satan, that old horned and warty toad, hops into our self-made puddles (cisterns). Once his foot is in, mud is immediately produced.
Our thinking suddenly becomes cloudy. Our hearts begin to develop barnacles. We begin to notice the humanness of humanity without God-produced love in our hearts. Suddenly each freckle and dimple is cause for offense. Suddenly people are dissatisfying and rude. Suddenly the faces of those we once loved are ugly.
We are so easily fooled by the lure of becoming god-like ourselves, aren't we? Adam and Eve certainly started this trend. And, make no mistake, whenever we choose to drink of our own water, we are in rebellion. Rebellion really is just another word for making ourselves gods. Leaky gods, but gods nonetheless.
If you have a thirst for TRUTH and LOVE, consider the water flowing from God's pure heart. If you desire God's best for you, His love, His mercy and His protection, drink from His proffered cup. If you desire freedom from the horned toad making mudpies in your heart, take a refreshing shower in the pure spring of LIFE---Jesus Christ!
c 2009 M. LaPointe
"My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken Me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."
Ah, yes. The perfect picture of our rebellion. God offers us living, refreshing, renewing water for our very souls and we pugnaciously decide to dig a filthy, dirty pit to collect our own water. As if our water could quench the eternal thirst of our souls!!!!
The Israelites were doing their thing again...worshipping idols. That, in itself, was an empty and barren endeavor. They thought that building temples of beauty and strict rules to guide their lives brought them closer to the truth. Really, those hull-like containers they thought were filled with the truth, were worthless...because they collected only worldly water and not the true water of life.
John 4: 13-14 describes Jesus' interaction with the woman at the well.
"Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water [from the well], will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
When we step away from the well, when we take it upon ourselves to drink of other waters (such as; idolatry or even self-righteousness), we risk, not simply losing our focus on and relationship with the Lord, but a full scale attack from the enemy.
Alone, without the water of life prophylactically coursing through our veins, satan, that old horned and warty toad, hops into our self-made puddles (cisterns). Once his foot is in, mud is immediately produced.
Our thinking suddenly becomes cloudy. Our hearts begin to develop barnacles. We begin to notice the humanness of humanity without God-produced love in our hearts. Suddenly each freckle and dimple is cause for offense. Suddenly people are dissatisfying and rude. Suddenly the faces of those we once loved are ugly.
We are so easily fooled by the lure of becoming god-like ourselves, aren't we? Adam and Eve certainly started this trend. And, make no mistake, whenever we choose to drink of our own water, we are in rebellion. Rebellion really is just another word for making ourselves gods. Leaky gods, but gods nonetheless.
If you have a thirst for TRUTH and LOVE, consider the water flowing from God's pure heart. If you desire God's best for you, His love, His mercy and His protection, drink from His proffered cup. If you desire freedom from the horned toad making mudpies in your heart, take a refreshing shower in the pure spring of LIFE---Jesus Christ!
c 2009 M. LaPointe
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